Edge Services Observability

Summary

Edge Services Observability is a tool used to monitor Edge Services running on Unified Access Gateways. We’ve provided readily available dashboards to help you easily understand...

Performance based on utilization
Distribution of Traffic
Device Traffic Rules impact

Features

Ready to deploy virtual appliance (OVA)
Web Portal for managing the list of UAGs to be monitored
Dashboards for visualizing metrics from VMware Tunnel and VMware Horizon
Ability to configure alerts based on conditions to get notified and detect anomalies

Note: Please refer to this blog for detailed deployment instructions, FAQs, tips and tricks.

Requirements

2 vCPU and4GB of memory for Edge Services Observability Appliance
vCenter Server 6.x or greater

Instructions

Detailed Instructions and FAQs can be found in this blog

Download the OVA file
Use vCenter to “Deploy OVF Template”
Customize the following properties as required:

Network Properties
Password for logging into the Appliance Operating System (SSH/ vCenter Console)
Password for accessing Admin Portal and Dashboards Page
SSH Access
Debug Logging for appliance deployment

Once the appliance is deployed and powered on, launch a web browser to access Admin Portal by navigating to the FQDN (over HTTPS) of the appliance
Log in with the password configured during the deployment of the appliance (Username is “admin”)
The “Home Page” provides an overview and links to configure UAG list and access Dashboards
Navigate to the “UAGs” tab or select “Manage UAGs” link to configure the list of UAGs to be monitored
Add the UAGs that need to be monitored using the “Add UAG” button
The following information is required when adding a UAG:

Hostname or IP
Friendly Name (This name will be used in the dashboard as the legend for the UAG in the widget chart)
Admin Username (UAG Admin username)
Password (UAG Admin password)
Certificate Thumbprint of UAG Admin Portal (served at port 9443 of UAG)
Deployment Type (Prod / UAT / Dev)

Click 'Save'
Once saved, click on “View Dashboards” link on the top right of the "UAGs" page to access the Dashboards
Login with the password configured during the deployment of the appliance to view the dashboards (Username is “admin”)

Note: The sample dashboards provided, contain panels (widgets) for visualizing curated metrics from VMware Tunnel and VMware Horizon Edge Services. However, as an administrator, you have the option to configure any of the additionally available metrics as widgets for the existing dashboards, as well as build new dashboards for other Edge Services as needed. Please refer to the “Tips & Tricks” section of the blog for steps to configure additional metrics in Dashboard as a widget/panel.

Contributors

Arun Balaji Giridharan

ALUMNUS

Partheeban Kandasamy

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